Frankfurt: International exhibitor numbers up
Andrew Wilkins reports for Bookseller+Publisher:While the world's largest book fair opens officially for business today (Wednesday) in Frankfurt, thousands of trade visitors have already been in town for a couple...
BISG releases PwC report into Australian book industry
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has made public a research report commissioned from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) entitled Cover to cover: a market analysis of the Australian book industry....
Quote of the week
'As a bookseller I want to be able to provide my customers with the book they want in the format they want. We try to source books for our customers...
Quote of the week
'If the publisher's split is a weak one, favouring the online retailer, that is not the author's problem. Authors should not be expected to compensate or make up for shortfalls...
Inside the current issue: Nash on why we’re at ‘publishing ground zero’
‘Book futurist' Richard Nash will be a guest speaker at this year's Australian Booksellers Association national conference in July. He told Bookseller+Publisher: ‘Publishing 3.0 could be called Publishing Ground...
Fancy Goods
This week, our Fancy Goods blog hits the road and takes in both Adelaide Writers' Week and the Perth Writers Festival: This year, due to some trickiness in the calendar,...
if:book–new Australian institute of the future of the book
Kate Eltham, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, announced on Thursday during the Melbourne Writers Festival digital publishing program that Australia is to have its own Institute of the Future...
Digital publishing program at MWF
A full-day digital publishing program was held for the industry and public on Thursday 28 August during the Melbourne Writers Festival. The daytime events were all chaired by Queensland Writers...